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SUMMARY:Who Are We Studying in Social Media: Bots or Humans?
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 24\, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd\, Associate Professor of Ted Rogers School of Management and Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship\, will be presenting “Who Are We Studying in Social Media: Bots or Humans?”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd\nAssociate Professor\nTed Rogers School of Management\, Ryerson University\nCanada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 24\, 2016\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, 245 Church Street\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5B 2K3\nMap: http://www.ryerson.ca/maps – Look for ENG \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter\, Alexei Botchkarev\nIEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Computer Science Department of Ryerson University\nMaryam Davoudpour \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/systemsChapterEvent24 \nAbstract: Researchers studying various online and computer-mediated communities used to be able to argue that the online is an extension of the offline\, and that offline and online are just different slices of real life. But the increasing number of bots in our datasets and the increasing use of algorithmic filtering by social media giants are widening the gap between online and offline\, and between computer-mediated and algorithm-driven communication. This in turn makes some online data less reliable\, at least for those of us studying human behavior. It also begs the question\, if we are using data from social media for modelling\, are we modelling human behavior in social media or simply reverse engineering how bots and other algorithms operate? Therefore\, there is an urgent need to better understand the nature of bots and algorithmic filtering\, and their influence on users’ online interactions\, not just from a computational\, but also from sociological perspective. This talk will discuss some of the key challenges and possible solutions to detecting social bots in the context of conducting social media research. \nBiography: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is a Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship\, Associate Professor in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. He is also the Director of the Social Media Lab and a co-editor of a multidisciplinary journal on Big Data and Society published by Sage. Dr. Gruzd’s research initiatives explore how the advent of social media and the growing availability of social big data are changing the ways in which people communicate\, collaborate and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social\, economic and political norms and structures of modern society. Dr. Gruzd and his lab are also actively developing and evaluating new approaches and tools to support social media data analytics and stewardship. \nHis research and commentaries have been reported across Canada and internationally in various mass media outlets such as Foreign Affairs\, Los Angeles Times\, Nature.com\, The Atlantic\, The Globe and Mail\, The National Post\, The Canadian Press\, CBC TV\, CBC Radio\, CTV and Global TV.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/who-are-we-studying-in-social-media-bots-or-humans/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, 245 Church Street
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Systems,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
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SUMMARY:Operational-Log Analysis for Big Data Systems: Challenges and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Friday November 18\, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Andriy Miranskyy\, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University\, will be presenting “Operational-Log Analysis for Big Data Systems: Challenges and Solutions”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Andriy Miranskyy\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University \nDay & Time: Friday\, November 18\, 2016\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRyerson University\nRoom: ENG 288\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nMap – http://www.ryerson.ca/maps – Look for ENG \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via this link: http://tinyurl.com/systemsEvent \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter\, Alexei Botchkarev albot@ieee.org\nIEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University\nIEEE Toronto WIE Chair: Maryam Davoudpour maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Big data systems (BDSs) are complex\, consisting of multiple interacting hardware software components\, such as distributed compute nodes\, networking\, databases\, middleware\, business intelligence layer\, and high availability infrastructure. Any of these components can fail. Finding the failures’ root causes is extremely laborious. Analysis of BDS-generated logs can speed up this process. The logs can also help improve testing processes\, detect security breaches\, customize operational profiles\, and aid with any other tasks requiring runtime-data analysis. \nHowever\, practical challenges hamper log analysis tools’ adoption. The logs emitted by a BDS can be thought of as big data themselves. When working with large logs\, practitioners face seven main issues: scarce storage\, unscalable log analysis\, inaccurate capture and replay of logs\, inadequate log-processing tools\, incorrect log classification\, a variety of log formats\, and inadequate privacy of sensitive data. This talk describes the challenges and practical solutions faced while building and institutionalizing dynamic analysis tools in the industry. \nBiography: Andriy Miranskyy is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University. His research interests are in the area of mitigating risk in software engineering\, focusing on software quality assurance\, program comprehension\, software requirements\, project risk management\, Big Data\, and Green IT. Andriy received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He has 17 years of software engineering experience in information management and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining Ryerson\, Andriy worked as a software engineer in the IBM Information Management division at the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory; currently\, he is the Faculty Fellow of the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. He has served as Guest Editor for a special edition of IEEE Software as well as organizer\, committee member\, and reviewer for several software engineering workshops and conferences.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/operational-log-analysis-for-big-data-systems-challenges-and-solutions/
LOCATION:Room: ENG 288\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Systems,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:Health Informatics Evening at Centennial College
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 16\, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. Igor Sirkovich\, Vikki Leung\, Karim Keshavjee and Jimmy Poulin\, will be presenting “Health Informatics Evening at Centennial College”. \nSpeakers & Agenda: 5:15 to 5:30 Event Registration \n1. Igor Sirkovich from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM\nFounder and CEO of Xpertera\nHL7 FHIR and eHealth Architecture Consultant at Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care\nPresentation title: Current initiatives at the Ministry of Health and eHealth Ontario\, pan-Canadian standards collaborative\, and health informatics standards (HL7 FHIR)\, Xpertera introduction. \n2. Vikki Leung from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM\nFull Stack Developer at Interdev Technologies Inc.\nPresentation title: Technology used for Community Paramedic Services\, Interdev Technologies \n3. Karim Keshavjee\, MD from 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM\nCEO of InfoClin Inc.\nAdjunct Professor at University of Toronto\, University of Victoria\nVisiting Scholar at Ryerson University\nAssociate Member at Centre for Evaluation of Medicine\, McMaster University\nNumerous publications on Health Informatics studies and medicine\nPresentation title: Health Apps by Design: A reference architecture for mobile apps for health \n4. Jimmy Poulin from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM\nDirector of Operations at m-Health Solutions\nPresentation title: ECG signal remote collection via mobile wireless external recorder and smartphone. \n5. NSERC speaker (name will be announced later) from 7:30 PM to 8:00 PM\nPresentation: Funding opportunities for College Students in Science and Technologies programs. \n8:00 to 8:30 PM Networking \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, November 16\, 2016\n5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room L1-02\, Centennial College\, Progress Campus\n941 Progress Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M1G 3T8\nMap: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/about-centennial/contact-us/campus-locations/ \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Nicoleta Zouri\nIEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Maryam Davoudpour \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via email to Nicoleta Zouri \nAbstract: Offered as part of the Experiential Learning process for students in Health Informatics Program at Centennial College\, this event facilitate skills and knowledge transfer between audience and speakers through an interactive session. Digital health solutions will be discussed and software demos will be presented.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/health-informatics-evening-at-centennial-college/
LOCATION:Room L1-02\, Centennial College\, Progress Campus 941 Progress Ave.\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161111T123000
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SUMMARY:Digital Health Initiatives at eHealth Ontario
DESCRIPTION:Friday November 11\, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. Hosna Sedghi\, Project Manager at eHealth Ontario\, will be presenting “Digital Health Initiatives at eHealth Ontario”. \nSpeaker: Hosna Sedghi\, MSc\, PMP\nProject Manager\, eHealth Ontario \nDay & Time: Friday\, November 11\, 2016\n11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room A3-21\, Centennial College\, Progress Campus\n941 Progress Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M1G 3T8\nMap: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/about-centennial/contact-us/campus-locations/ \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Nicoleta Zouri\nIEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Maryam Davoudpour \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via email to Nicoleta Zouri \nAbstract: eHealth Ontario was established by the provincial government in September 2008 as an independent agency of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. eHealth Ontario is enabling physicians and health care providers to establish and maintain electronic health records (EHRs) for all of Ontario’s 13 million residents. \nBiography: With a background in software engineering Hosna Sedghi has worked as a project manager at eHealth Ontario for the past 3 years and as a project lead previous to that. Hosna has extensive experience with HL7 standards\, business analysis\, system analysis\, integration\, and health information.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/digital-health-initiatives-at-ehealth-ontario/
LOCATION:Room A3-21\, Centennial College\, Progress Campus\, 941 Progress Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M1G 3T8
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161031T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161031T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
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SUMMARY:Algorithms and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 31\, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Richard Lachman\, Associate Professor\, will be presenting “Algorithms and Ethics”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Richard Lachman\nAssociate Professor\, Digital Media in RTA School of Media \nDay & Time: Monday\, October 31\, 2016\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: KHE 225\, 340 Church Street\, Ryerson \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizer: WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Computer Science Department of Ryerson University \nAbstract: Software algorithms are becoming more and more influential on the daily lives of citizens. Netflix\, Spotify\, Facebook\, and Google openly discuss their use of algorithms as part of their operations\, and mainstream critics have discussed the effects of filter-bubbles and echo-chambers on our points of view. However\, algorithms are increasingly embedded in governmental and legal systems – with mathematical models influencing everything from teacher evaluations to police dispatch locations\, and even parole board hearings. Algorithms exert their influence over our social\, political\, legal\, financial\, and educational systems\, with average citizens and politicians having little understanding of how computation affects the conventions\, laws\, and assumptions that underlay our society . What are the responsibilities of computer scientists and software engineers towards an ethical practice as algorithmic decision-making becomes integrated into policy? \nBiography: Dr. Richard Lachman directs Zone Learning for Ryerson University\, Research Development for the Faculty of Communication and Design\, and the Experiential Media Institute (formerly the Transmedia Research Centre). He is an Associate Professor\, Digital Media in the RTA School of Media\, and also serves as a Technology and Creative Consultant for entertainment and software-development projects. Dr Lachman completed his doctorate at UNE (Australia) studying software recommendation-engines\, did his undergraduate work in Computer Science at MIT\, and holds a masters degree from the MIT Media Lab’s “Interactive Cinema” group. His work with the Petz artificial-life software has over 3 million units shipped worldwide\, his later transmedia projects have garnered a Gemini\, CNMA and Webby Honouree awards\, and he has lead projects with UNICEF\, TIFF\, Penguin UK\, Kobo\, CTV\, the Discovery Channel Canada\, the Banff Centre for the Arts\, and the CRTC. His areas of research include virtual reality\, transmedia storytelling\, digital documentaries\, augmented/locative experiences\, mixed realities\, and collaborative design thinking.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/algorithms-and-ethics/
LOCATION:KHE 225\, 340 Church Street\, Ryerson
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161019T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161019T113000
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SUMMARY:Blackberry’s Platform for True End-to-End Mobile Security for Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday October 19\, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. Sara Jost\, Registered Nurse working at Blackberry as a Global Healthcare Industry Lead\, will be presenting “Blackberry’s Platform for True End-to-End Mobile Security for Healthcare”. \nSpeaker: Sara Jost\nRegistered Nurse\nGlobal Healthcare Industry Lead\, Blackberry \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, October 19\, 2016\n10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. \nLocation: Centennial College Progress Campus\, Room A3-17 \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour\, Nicoleta Zouri \nOrganizer: WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics \nAbstract: Blackberry is the one platform for true end-to-end mobile security. Together with our partners\, Blackberry has developed secure mobile solutions for healthcare organizations across the continuum of care. From clinics\, to hospitals\, to first responders\, home care workers and the home\, we offer tried and true solutions that maximize patient outcomes and improve the patient experience\, reduce costs and are fully secure to protect PHI. \n1. We have helped hospitals reduce their emergency room wait times by 50% and meet their code STEM window 100% of the time. \n2. In home care\, we have shown drastic reductions in missed visits and savings of more than $7\,000 per home care worker per year. \n3. Blackberry secure messaging has improved efficiency so much that hospitals staff have saved 2 hours per day just by eliminating the need to track down other team members. \nBiography: Sara Jost is a Registered Nurse working at Blackberry as a Global Healthcare Industry Lead where she leads the promotion of digital devices for use in medicine. Previously Sara worked as a Registered Nurse at Sunnybrook Hospital.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/blackberrys-platform-for-true-end-to-end-mobile-security-for-healthcare/
LOCATION:Centennial College Progress Campus\, Room A3-17
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161017T120000
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SUMMARY:Using and Evaluating Gamification as a Strategy of Engagement in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 17\, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Sergio A. A. Freitas\, Associate Professor in the Gama Engineering College at the University of Brasilia\, will be presenting “Using and Evaluating Gamification as a Strategy of Engagement in the Classroom”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Sergio A. A. Freitas\nAssociate Professor\, Gama Engineering College\, University of Brasilia\nCoordinator of Research\, FGA Software Factory Laboratory \nDay & Time: Monday\, October 17\, 2016\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: KHE 225\, 340 Church Street\, Ryerson \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizer: WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nAbstract: The gamification of activities other than games has become one of the main goals of a new research topic. In the education area the proposal could not be different: the new generations entering the higher education has a lot of experience in the virtual information environment and games. So\, nothing more natural than checking the adherence of gamification to teaching this new student profile. In this scenario\, this talk presents a case study of a gamification for a discipline of an undergraduate course. The gamification space was built based on a framework that stands on basic human motivations. Finally\, I present some statistical evaluations of the students’ engagement after the introduction of gamification in the classroom. \nBiography: Sergio A. A. Freitas is currently an Associate Professor in the Gama Engineering College (FGA) at the University of Brasilia (UnB)\, Brazil. He is also the coordinator of research in the FGA Software Factory Laboratory. His current research projects focus on interdisciplinary studies and applications of learning methodologies on engineering undergraduate courses\, and software engineering methodologies. Prof. Freitas areas of expertise include gamification\, PBL\, virtual learning environments in education and training\, and software engineering methodologies. Dr. Freitas has coauthored journal publications\, conference articles and book chapters in the aforementioned topics\, and has coordinated and participated on many projects from various funding agencies CNPq\, FAP-ES\, FAP-DF\, Cebraspe\, and some Brazilian Federal Ministries.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/using-and-evaluating-gamification-as-a-strategy-of-engagement-in-the-classroom/
LOCATION:KHE 225\, 340 Church Street\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160926T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160926T120000
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SUMMARY:Wireless Power Transfer Systems: Current Issues and Future Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Monday September 26\, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Sheldon S. Williamson\, Senior Member at IEEE\, will be presenting “Wireless Power Transfer Systems: Current Issues and Future Opportunities”. \nSpeaker: Sheldon S. Williamson\nAssociate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification\nDirector\, Smart Transportation Electrification and Energy Research (STEER) Group Advanced Storage Systems and Electric Transportation (ASSET) Laboratory\nUOIT – Automotive Center of Excellence (UOIT-ACE)\nDepartment of Electrical\, Computer\, and Software Engineering\nFaculty of Engineering and Applied Science\nUniversity of Ontario – Institute of Technology \nDay & Time: Monday\, September 26\, 2016\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: Ryerson\, KHE 225 \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizer: WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nAbstract: More recently\, with the automotive market getting introduced to several EV models (Tesla\, Leaf\, Mitsubishi – for example)\, the need for charging them within cities\, suburbs\, and highways\, has driven power electronics engineers towards innovative ideas to solve the future charging infrastructure problem. Plugged charging topologies have been investigated thoroughly in recent years\, based on existing SAE J1772 standards for AC and DC charging\, ranging from 1.5 kW to 50 kW. On the other hand\, in the last five years or so\, power supply and charger manufacturing companies have been seriously started looking at wireless charging as an attractive solution\, to avoid physical drawbacks of wired or plugged versions of charging EVs. The high-level goals of this seminar is to focus on introducing advanced power electronics solutions for charging traction batteries and ultracapacitors using wireless technologies. Both inductive power transfer (IPT) as well as capacitive power transfer (CPT\, electrostatic) techniques of wireless charging will be introduced. The major market for IPT-based wireless charging is the mass transit industry\, such as electric trains\, buses\, and trams\, in the range of 10-50 kW\, while both IPT and CPT could be used for charging small utility- grade EVs (golf carts/security vehicles)\, in smaller sizes of 1.0 kW. \nCritical issues\, such as IPT transfer coil design\, CPT capacitor dielectric medium/transfer plate designs\, and converter topologies\, will be discussed. Detailed results of finite element analysis (FEA) designs for energizer and pick-up coils will be presented. Specific emphasis is placed on reducing the effect of skin effect and proximity effect for both in-motion and static charging (for varied switching frequencies and air-gap lengths). An important aspect that will also be covered is the design of charger topologies on the secondary side of the IPT or CPT system. The challenge is to come up with 1-stage power conversion techniques\, including high-frequency (HF) AC/DC rectification and DC/DC charger functionalities\, with conversion efficiencies of 95% or larger. \nThis seminar will be particularly useful for engineers with entry-level and medium-level knowledge of power electronics and energy storage systems for electric transportation. \nBiography: Sheldon S. Williamson (S’01–M’06–SM’13) received his Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electrical Engineering with high distinction from University of Mumbai\, India\, in 1999. He received the Masters of Science (M.S.) degree in 2002\, and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree (with Honors) in 2006\, both in Electrical Engineering\, from the Illinois Institute of Technology\, Chicago\, IL. From June 2006 to June 2014\, Dr. Williamson held a tenure-track Assistant Professor position\, followed by a tenured Associate Professor position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, at Concordia University\, in Montreal\, Canada. Dr. Williamson currently holds an Associate Professor position in the Department of Electrical\, Computer\, and Software Engineering\, at the University of Ontario-Institute of Technology (UOIT)\, in Oshawa\, Ontario\, Canada. Since July 2015\, Dr. Williamson also holds the prestigious title of NSERC Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification. Dr. Williamson’s research interests include transportation electrification\, electric energy storage systems\, automotive power electronics\, and motor drives. Dr. Williamson is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/wireless-power-transfer-systems-current-issues-and-future-opportunities/
LOCATION:Room KHE 225\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160919T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160919T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210430T002605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T003253Z
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SUMMARY:Disaster Scene Reconstruction - Emergency Management Tool
DESCRIPTION:Monday September 19\, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Alex Ferworn\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director at Ryerson University\, will be presenting “Disaster Scene Reconstruction – Emergency Management Tool”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alex Ferworn\nAssociate Chair and Graduate Programs Director\, Ryerson University\nDirector\, Program in Disaster and Emergency Management \nDay & Time: Monday\, September 19\, 2016\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: Ryerson\, KHE 225 \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizer: WIE\, Magnetics\, Measurement/Instrumentation-Robotics\, Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nBiography: Prof. Ferworn received his PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo\, his MSc in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph and his B.Tech in Applied Computer Science from Ryerson University\, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director. He is also Director of a number of Certificate programs including the Program in Disaster and Emergency Management. Ferworn is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Computing and Software\, Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. Prof. Ferworn has been collaborating with the USAR and CBRNe Response Team (UCRT) of the Ontario Provincial Police since 2005. He has worked extensively with USAR teams in Canada and the United States on a broad range of technology issues related to Computational Public Safety. He does not own a dog.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/disaster-scene-reconstruction-emergency-management-tool/
LOCATION:Ryerson\, KHE 225
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160628T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160628T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
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SUMMARY:Ground Truth Bias in External Cluster Validity Indices
DESCRIPTION:June 28\, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer James C. Bezdek will be presenting “Ground Truth Bias in External Cluster Validity Indices”. \nSpeaker: James C. Bezdek\nIEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, June 28\, 2016\n2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\, George Vary Engineering & Computing Centre\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3\n(Intersection of Church and Gould) \nMap: http://www.ryerson.ca/maps/ \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour\, Dr. Glaucio Carvalho\, Dr. Alireza Sadeghian \nOrganizers: Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter\, Magnetics Chapter\, Instrumentation & Measurement/Robotics & Automation Chapter \nAbstract: This talk begins with a short review of clustering that emphasizes external cluster validity indices (CVIs). A method for generalizing external pairbased CVIS (e.g.\, the crisp Rand and Jacard indices) to evaluate soft partitions is described and illustrated. Three types of validation experiments conducted with synthetic and real world labeled data are discussed: “best c” (internal validation with labeled data)\, and “best I/E” (agreement between an internal and external CVI pair). \nAs is always the case in cluster validity\, conclusions based on empirical evidence are at the mercy of the data\, so the reported results might be invalid for different data sets and/or clustering models and algorithms. But much more importantly\, we discovered during these tests that some external cluster validity indices are also at the mercy of the distribution of the ground truth itself. We believe that our study of this surprising fact is the first systematic analysis of a largely unknown but very important problem ~ bias due to the distribution of the ground truth partition. \nSpecifically\, in addition to the well known bias in many external CVIs caused by monotonic dependency on c\, the number of clusters in candidate partitions\, there are two additional kinds of bias that can be caused by an unusual distribution of the clusters in the ground truth partition provided with labeled data. The most important ground truth bias is caused by imbalance (unequally sized labeled subsets). We demonstrate these effects with randomized experiments on 25 pair-based external CVIs. Then we provide a theoretical analysis of bias due to ground truth for several CVis by relating Rand’s index to the Havrda-Charvat quadratic entropy. \nBiography: Jim received the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1973. Jim is past president of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society)\, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) and the IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society): founding editor the Int’l. Jo. Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Life fellow of the IEEE and IFSA; and a recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium\, IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer\, and IEEE technical field award Rosenblatt medals. Jim’s interests: woodworking\, optimization\, motorcycles\, pattern recognition\, cigars\, clustering in very large data\, fishing\, co-clustering\, blues music\, wireless sensor networks\, poker and visual clustering. And of course\, clustering in big data. Jim retired in 2007\, and will be coming to a university near you soon.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ground-truth-bias-in-external-cluster-validity-indices/
LOCATION:ENG 106\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Signals & Computational Intelligence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160620T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160620T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T001449Z
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SUMMARY:Optimization and Research: Applications\, Opportunities\, and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:June 20\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan\, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical\, Computer and Software Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT\, will be presenting “Optimization and Research: Applications\, Opportunities\, and Challenges”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Electrical\, Computer and Software Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science\, UOIT \nDay & Time: Monday\, June 20\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3 \nOrganizer: IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)\, IEEE Magnetics Chapter\, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement/Robotics & Automation Joint Chapter and Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: In this research seminar\, the speaker will explain his recent optimization research work and accomplishments\, categorized in the following two main groups of contributions: theoretical/developmental and practical. The first group will cover his contributions in large-scale optimization\, opposition-based computation\, many-objective optimization\, image-based large-scale visualization and interaction\, incremental cooperative coevolution\, micro-differential evolution\, 3D visualization of many-objective Pareto-front\, preserving constraint handling\, decision making in high-dimensional objective space\, and multi-modal optimization. In the practical category\, the speaker will explain several real-world applications to demonstrate effectiveness of optimization in medical image processing\, renewable energy systems\, forensic science\, scheduling\, and wireless sensors network. This seminar will be beneficial for faculty and students who conduct ‘research in optimization’ or ‘optimization in research’. \nBiography: Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees both with honors in software engineering. In 2007\, he received his Ph.D. degree in the field of evolutionary computation from Systems Design Engineering Department\, University of Waterloo. Inspired from opposition-based differential evolution algorithm (ODE)\, more than 450 papers have been published. Before joining to the faculty of engineering and applied science\, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)\, Canada\, as a tenure-track faculty member\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University (SFU)\, Canada. He was granted tenure earlier and also was promoted to an associate professor position in 2013. His research includes evolutionary computation\, image processing\, machine learning\, and opposition-based soft computing. Dr. Rahnamayan was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)\, President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS)\, NSERC’s Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship\, NSERC’s Industrial R&D Fellowship (IRDF)\, NSERC’s Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF)\, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship for two times. He has published more than 100 papers\, Dr. Rahnamayan has received several prestigious research grants\, such as\, NSERC Discovery Grant and also Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative Fund. He recently visited the Michigan State University (MSU) and BEACON Research Center for two years in order to conduct research on large-scale and multi-objective optimization and visualization.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/optimization-and-research-applications-opportunities-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288 245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160531T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160531T123000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T001320Z
UID:10000016-1464694200-1464697800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Internet of Things\, building blocks\, challenges and research directions
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 31st\, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. Dr. Fatima Hussain will be presenting “Internet of Things\, building blocks\, challenges and research directions”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Fatima Hussain \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, May 31st\, 2016\n11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\nComputer Science Department\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, Ryerson University\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3 \nOrganizer: IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)\, IEEE Magnetics Chapter\, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement/Robotics & Automation Joint Chapter and Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm that is rapidly growing in modern wireless telecommunications. IoT means a world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable\, sustainable and enhance able. It is defined as integration of several technologies\, and communications solutions based on standard communication protocols. The main strength of the IoT idea is the high impact it will have on several aspects of everyday-life and behavior of potential users. This promising technology comes with great challenges and leads to numerous research directions for industry as well academia. \nBiography: Fatima Hussain received her PhD and MASc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialization in “Wireless Communication” from Ryerson University\, Canada. She holds MEng. and BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialization in “Controls System” and “Telecommunication Systems”\, respectively from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore\, Pakistan. She is acting as a reviewer for IEEE Access journal and IET Journal from couple of years. She is working as a post-doctoral fellow in NCART lab\, Ryerson University\, on a design and implementation of “Smart Parking System”.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/internet-of-things-building-blocks-challenges-and-research-directions/
LOCATION:Room ENG288\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160414T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160414T153000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T000950Z
UID:10000030-1460642400-1460647800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Segmentation-Aware Convolutional Nets
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 14th\, 2016 at 2:15 p.m. Adam Harley will be presenting “Segmentation-Aware Convolutional Nets”. \nSpeaker: Adam Harley \nDay & Time: Thursday\, April 14th\, 2016\n2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\nComputer Science Department\nGeorge Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRyerson University\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3 \nOrganizer: IEEE Magnetics Chapter\, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Joint Chapter and Computer Science Department Ryerson University \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: In this talk\, I will propose a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture that learns pixel embeddings\, such that pairwise distances between the embeddings can be used to infer whether or not the pixels lie on the same region. Experimental results show that when this embedding network is used in conjunction with a DCNN trained on semantic segmentation\, there is a systematic improvement in per-pixel classification accuracy. The contributions of this work consist in straightforward modifications to convolution routines. As such\, they can be exploited for any task involving convolution layers\, including object recognition\, image retrieval\, and video understanding. \nBiography: Adam Harley received a BA (Honours) degree in psychology from Ryerson University in 2012\, and was awarded the Canadian Psychological Association’s Certificate of Academic Excellence for his undergraduate thesis. Subsequently he began a computer science undergraduate degree at Ryerson\, where he was awarded the NSERC USRA. In 2014 he joined Ryerson’s MSc program in computer science. During the MSc he did research at INRIA in France\, as part of a Mitacs-Globalink research award. He is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship for 2015. His main areas of research interest are computer vision and artificial intelligence.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/segmentation-aware-convolutional-nets/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\, 245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160331T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T000843Z
UID:10000015-1459429200-1459432800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medical Education: A New Wave
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 31st\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Abdulaziz Saud Alshafai\, Research Fellow of Surgical Education of the Neurosurgery Division at St. Michael’s Hospital\, will be presenting “Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medical Education: A New Wave”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Abdulaziz Saud Alshafai\, MD\, MBBS\nResearch Fellow of Surgical Education\nNeurosurgery Division\nSt. Michael’s Hospital \nDay & Time: Thursday\, March 31st\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: LG04 Ryerson University\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3 \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour \nLearning Objectives: To familiarize the audience with basic multimedia educational theory and principles. \nTo gain appreciation for the application of new technologies ( Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) in medical education. \nTo develop some insight regarding the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration and development. \nBiography: Dr. Alshafai is a medical graduate from University of Dammam\, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Specially interested in the surgical field\, education and new technology innovations. He has joined St. Michael’s Hospital for a research fellowship in Surgical Education under the supervision of Professor Michael Cusimano in the division of Neurosurgery whilst pursuing a Masters of Medical Education at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands. His current work involves the usage of virtual reality and three dimensional (3D) printing in medical education\, emphasizing on the application of educational theories and principles. \nAs a long time video-games enthusiast he also holds holds a special interest for the gamification of education and the use of video games as a medium for educating students.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-medical-education-a-new-wave/
LOCATION:LG04 Ryerson\, University 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160310T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160310T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T000729Z
UID:10000031-1457614800-1457618400@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Software Development for Aerospace Activities
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 10th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Elliott Coleshill\, Professor at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology\, will be presenting “Software Development for Aerospace Activities”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Elliott Coleshill\, Professor\nSeneca College of Applied Arts and Technology\nSchool of Information and Communications Technology \nDay & Time: Thursday\, March 10th\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\n245 Church Street\, Ryerson University\, M5B 2K3 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: Due to the need for real-time operations\, fault tolerance and reaction to internal/external sensory input\, robotics and spacecraft systems contain some of the most sophisticated and complex software developed. These systems are required to operate in harsh environments\, act autonomously and support human life in critical and non-critical situations. \nThis presentation will walk through the life cycle of software system design for aerospace projects from design and development to verification\, validation and real-time operations. With over 15 years of experience in the industry\, Dr. Coleshill will share stories about his experience working on the International Space Station and satellite systems to track marine ship traffic around the globe. \nBiography: Dr. Ellliott Coleshill has over 15 years of experience working in the Canadian space industry. Dr. Coleshill completed a PhD in 2010 and a Masters in 2003 from the University of Guleph\, with research in image processing\, machine vision and robotics. Prior to attending the University of Guelph\, he graduated from the Ryerson Applied Computer Science program in 2000 with research in autonomous robotic control. \nDr. Coleshill started his career in the space industry at MDA. From 2000 to 2004 he was part of a team that designed and developed the integration and test environment for the International Space Station Mobile Servicing System (Canadarm2/Dextre). In 2004 Dr. Coleshill transitioned into the Systems group where he worked as a software safety engineer\, engineering support lead at the Canadian Space Agency during docked robotic operations on the International Space Station and several small research and development concept demonstrations. In August\, 2005 Dr. Coleshill received a NASA Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award in recognition of his dedication\, commitment and his achievements in support of NASA’s space program. From 2005 to 2007 Dr. Coleshill was the technical lead for designing and developing the concepts and system upgrades for Canadarm2 free flyer capture operations used today for SpaceX operations. In 2007\, the Canadian Space Agency presented him with a Certificate of Distinction for his free flyer concept checkout procedures.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/software-development-for-aerospace-activities/
LOCATION:Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T235852Z
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SUMMARY:Semi-automated Genome Annotation and an Expanded Epigenetic Alphabet
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 11th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Michael Hoffman\, Principal Investigator at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics\, University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Semi-automated genome annotation and an expanded epigenetic alphabet”. \nSpeaker: Michael Hoffman\nPrincipal Investigator at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre\nAssistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics\, University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Thursday\, February 11\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4\nPlease check before the seminar \nContact: llivi@scs.ryerson.ca \nAbstract: First\, we will discuss Segway\, an integrative method to identify patterns from multiple functional genomics experiments\, discovering joint patterns across different assay types. We apply Segway to ENCODE ChIP-seq andDNase-seq data and identify patterns associated with transcription start sites\, gene ends\, enhancers\, CTCF elements\, and repressed regions. Segway yields a model which elucidates the relationship between assay observations and functional elements in the genome. \nSecond\, we will discuss a new method to discover transcription factor motifs and identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA with covalent modifications such as methylation. Just as transcription factors distinguish one standard nucleobase from another\, they also distinguish unmodified and modified bases. To represent the modified bases in a sequence\, we replace cytosine (C) with symbols for 5-methylcytosine (5mC)\, 5-hydroxylmethylcytosine (5hmC)\, 5-formylcytosine (5fC). Similarly\, we adapted the well-established position weight matrix model of transcription factor binding affinity to an expanded alphabet. We created an expanded-alphabet genome sequence using genome-wide maps of 5mC\, 5hmC\, and 5fC in mouse embryonic stem cells. Using this sequence and expanded-alphabet position weight matrixes\, we reproduced various known methylation binding preferences\, including the preference of ZFP57 and C/EBPβ for methylated motifs and the preference of c-Myc for unmethylated motifs. Using these known binding preferences to tune model parameters enables discovery of novel modified motifs. \nBiography: Michael Hoffman is a principal investigator at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science\, University of Toronto. He researches the application of machine learning techniques to epigenomic data. He previously led the National Institutes of Health ENCODE Project’s large-scale integration task group while at the University of Washington. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge\, where he conducted computational genomics studies at the European Bioinformatics Institute. He also has a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin. He was named a Genome Technology Young Investigator and has received several awards for his academic work\, including a NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/semi-automated-genome-annotation-and-an-expanded-epigenetic-alphabet/
LOCATION:Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\, Ryerson University\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Signals & Computational Intelligence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T234507Z
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SUMMARY:Agile Methodologies in the Enterprise
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 4th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Salah Sharieh\, Senior Technical Innovator\, will be presenting “Agile Methodologies in the Enterprise”. \nSpeaker: Salah Sharieh\nSenior Technical Innovator\nDoctor of Philosophy\, McMaster University \nDay & Time: Thursday\, February 4\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: The only constant is change and technology is changing very fast. To build an enterprise software is inherently complex and lengthy with a need for flexibility to adjust to the changing needs of customers and market conditions. Agile methodologies are often presented as the solution for these problems. \nAdopting a new concept often proves harder than it seems at first but having the right people with the right tools to support the change can make it easier. Introducing Agile into large organization has advantages and disadvantages such as accelerating delivery and shortening the feedback cycle. On the other hand\, these types of methodologies have higher dependency on people skills rather than processes which makes it harder to achieve the desired value. \nAfter further analysis\, it appears that only some parts of agile methodologies work well. In this topic\, we will talk about the challenges that CIOs face with adapting agile methods and what can be done to increase the likely hood of useful adoption and implementation in large organizations. In addition\, we will talk about vendors’ role in agile projects and how they might contribute to the failure or the success of a project. Finally\, we will compare and contrast Agile with iterative approaches. \nBiography: Dr. Salah Sharieh is a Senior Technical Innovator with extensive experience in business and technology. He has developed his business savvy through working with Fortune 500 companies. Salah also holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from McMaster University. He has more than twenty peer reviewed publications and has contributed to several books. He also is a technical reviewer for several journals and conferences and is a member of the CIO association of Canada. Recently Salah led the National Occupation Standards for Cyber Security.\nIn the last 20 years\, Salah Sharieh founded several companies\, some of which were later acquired by larger organizations. He has delivered high profile solutions and provided vision and leadership to several industries including financial\, telecommunication\, manufacturing\, and the public sector. Under Salah’s leadership\, start-up companies evolved from concept to companies providing products and solutions for businesses across Canada\, the United States\, and Europe.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/agile-methodologies-in-the-enterprise/
LOCATION:Room LG04\, Ryerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210501T014015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T014015Z
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SUMMARY:The Art of Successful Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 28th\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Alex. Ferworn\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director at Ryerson University\, will be presenting “The Art of Successful Presentation”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alex Ferworn\nAssociate Chair and Graduate Programs Director\, Ryerson University\nDirector\, Program in Disaster and Emergency Management \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 28\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room LG04\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\, Toronto\, M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: The fear of needles (trypanophobia) is the 20th most prevalent phobia. The fear of public speaking (glossophobia) is ranked at 13th. Does this mean that some people would rather be stuck with needles than make a public presentation? Based on the experience of Prof. Ferworn\, this may be true. Some fear of making a presentation can be mitigated by knowing what to do. In this presentation\, Prof. Ferworn will discuss how to make a successful presentation by providing simple guidelines so that no one must stick themselves with needles in order to feel better about talking publicly. \nBiography: Prof. Ferworn received his PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo\, his MSc in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph and his B.Tech in Applied Computer Science from Ryerson University\, where he is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science\, Associate Chair and Graduate Programs Director. He is also Director of a number of Certificate programs including the Program in Disaster and Emergency Management. Ferworn is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Computing and Software\, Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. Prof. Ferworn has been collaborating with the USAR and CBRNe Response Team (UCRT) of the Ontario Provincial Police since 2005. He has worked extensively with USAR teams in Canada and the United States on a broad range of technology issues related to Computational Public Safety. He does not own a dog.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/the-art-of-successful-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151207T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T234626Z
UID:10000038-1449491400-1449495000@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Connected Cars for Smart Cities
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 7\, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. Shahrokh Valaee\, Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Connected Cars for Smart Cities”. \nSpeaker: Shahrokh Valaee\nProfessor\, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies\nEdward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Toronto \nDay & Time: Monday\, December 7\, 2015\n12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\nGeorge Vari Center for Engineering & Computing\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: Recently we are witnessing the emergence of situation-aware vehicles\, equipped with plurality of sensors that can help driver with vehicle control and maneuvering. Cars that can park themselves\, provide lane-departure warning\, and monitor the driver alertness are marketed with affordable prices. The sensing and processing power of cars are increasing\, enabling various safety-enhancing features\, such as blind-spot warning\, adaptive headlights\, adaptive cruise control\, and so on. In this talk\, we will discuss the next steps for autonomous vehicles. In particular\, we will project the path forward by transitioning from autonomous cars to cognitive and intelligent vehicles. Future cars will be enabled with car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication capabilities. We will review such enhancement and will focus on two recent research directives that will make future cars intelligent. The two enablers are compressive sensing and network coding. We will show that cooperative compressive sensing can reduce the wireless channel congestion\, which is the main challenge in dense vehicular networks. To discuss the communications aspects of vehicular networks\, we will introduce a repetition-based medium access control method using positive orthogonal codes\, and then propose an opportunistic network-coding scheme to enhance the reliability of communication. We will finally discuss some open research issues. \nBiography: Shahrokh Valaee is with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, where he is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He is the Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee recently served as the TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015. He was the Track Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014\, the TPC Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011\, and the Co-Chair for Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006. From December 2010 to December 2012\, he was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Currently\, he serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Since Feb 2015 he has been an Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Science. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/connected-cars-for-smart-cities/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T234047Z
UID:10000042-1447938000-1447941600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 19\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Mohammad Norouzi\, PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search”. \nSpeaker: Mohammad Norouzi\nPhD Candidate \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 19\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church Street\nToronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour\, Email:maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Scalable similarity search on images\, documents\, and user activities benefits generic search\, data visualization\, and recommendation systems. This talk concerns the design of algorithms and machine learning tools for faster and more accurate similarity search. The proposed techniques advocate the use of discrete codes for representing the similarity structure of data in a compact way. In particular\, I will discuss how one can learn to map high-dimensional data onto binary codes with a metric learning approach. Then\, I will describe a simple algorithm for fast exact nearest neighbour search in Hamming distance\, which exhibits sub-linear query time performance. Going beyond binary codes\, I will highlight a compositional generalization of k-means clustering which maps data points onto integer codes with storage and search costs that grow sub-linearly in the number of cluster centers. This representation improves upon binary codes\, and provides an even more precise approximation of Euclidean distance. Experimental results are reported on multiple datasets including a dataset of SIFT descriptors with 1B entries. \nBiography: Mohammad Norouzi is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and computer vision. He is a recipient of a Google US/Canada PhD fellowship in machine learning. He is going to join Google as a research scientist in January 2016.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/compact-discrete-representations-for-scalable-similarity-search/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230356Z
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SUMMARY:Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy
DESCRIPTION:November 12\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\, will be presenting “Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy”. \nSpeaker: Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\nPostdoctoral at University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 12\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Discovering the 3D structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which attempts to reconstruct 3D structures from 2D images. This talk reviews the computational problems in Cryo-EM which are closely related to classical vision problems such as object detection\, multiview reconstruction and computed tomography. Finally\, a framework is introduced for reconstruction of 3D molecular structure which exploits modern methods for stochastic optimization and importance sampling. The result is a method which is efficient\, robust to initialization and flexible. \nBiography: Marcus Brubaker received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2011. After that he worked with Raquel Urtasun as a postdoctoral researcher at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and is currently a postdoc at University of Toronto\, Scarborough. He also consults with Cadre Research Labs on machine learning and computer vision related projects and teaches at the University of Toronto. He was won a number of fellowships and awards\, including OGS and NSERC graduate fellowships as well as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. \nHis most recent work on autonomous vehicle localization (“Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization\,” CVPR 2013) and the estimation of the 3D structure of proteins and viruses (“Building Proteins in a Day\,” CVPR 2015) have won awards and attention in the lay press. His interests span computer vision\, machine learning and statistics and he works on a range of problems including video-based human motion estimation\, physical models of human motion\, Bayesian inference\, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods\, ballistic forensics\, electron cryo-microscopy and autonomous vehicle localization.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/efficient-3d-molecular-structure-estimation-with-electron-cryomicroscopy/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151001T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151001T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T233400Z
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SUMMARY:Occupational Health Exergames Applications
DESCRIPTION:October 1\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\, Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, will be presenting “Occupational Health Exergames Applications”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\nMechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\nMasters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas\nPostdoctoral Fellow at the Games Institute \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 1\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Occupational health care issues affect more than 1.7 billion around the world and counting. Health care focuses on preventive\, corrective and maintainable physical activities that are subjectively monitored and poorly assessed without supervision\, as the patient may not perform the activities as expected. Among many reasons\, pain\, lack of interest\, cultural issues and even incomprehensive guides affect doing the physical activity. Didactic approaches to address such difficulties have resulted in interactive guides\, videos and physical trainers doing their best. However\, occupational health exercises are characterized to be very short\, repetitive and mandatory\, which causes demotivation and disinterred from workers. With the massif availability of affordable devices as a result of videogame evolution such as Wiimote\, Kinect\, etc.\, and open electronics and 3D printing\, with 3D tools such as Blender or Unity. Tailor exergames to specific scenarios can impact both physicians and workers with engaging and competitive activities with clear goals and monitoring to quantify the physical activity. In this talk I will address the development of motion capture occupational healthcare exergames for lower and upper limb\, and eye tracking\, challenges\, future work and trends. \nBiography: Dr. Alvaro is Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, with a Masters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas. His main fields of work are in virtual reality towards the development of applications that take advantage of immersion and interaction using game elements in training and learning scenarios. Currently Dr. Alvaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Games Institute working with the University of Waterloo and UOIT.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/occupational-health-exergames-applications/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\, 350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150706T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150706T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T161828
CREATED:20210429T230248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T232921Z
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SUMMARY:Mechatronics in Surgery and Rehabilitation
DESCRIPTION:July 06\, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Ana Luisa Trejos\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng.\, will be presenting “Mechatronics in Surgery and Rehabilitation”. \nSpeaker: Ana Luisa Trejos\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng. \nDay & Time: Monday\, July 06\, 2015\n3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\nComputer Science Department\nGeorge Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRyerson University\n245 Church St.\nToronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3 \nClick here to see the Map \nOrganizer: IEEE Magnetics Chapter\, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Joint Chapter \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour\, E-mail: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Mechatronic systems have the advantage of being able to make smart decisions in response to what is perceived in the environment. The medical field presents unique challenges for the development of mechatronic devices that can assist in the advancement of more effective and less invasive treatment options. At Western University\, significant advances in the design and development of mechatronic devices for surgery and rehabilitation have been achieved. In this presentation\, Dr. Trejos will describe some of the undergoing projects at Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR)\, focused on robotic systems for surgery and surgical training\, and at the Wearable Biomechatronics Laboratory (WearME lab)\, related to rehabilitation devices. \nBiography: Dr. Trejos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering program at the Western University and an Associate Scientist at Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics\, Lawson Health Research Institute. She received her B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 1997\, her M.A.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2000 and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western in 2012. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as an Applications Engineer for Progressive Moulded Products in Concord\, Ontario. Since 2004\, she has been working on the design\, development and testing of medical mechatronic systems. Her research is focused towards evaluating how novel mechatronic devices can improve patient care during surgery\, therapy and rehabilitation. This includes the development of smart devices for minimally invasive surgery and the design of wearable mechatronic braces that can provide improved treatment options for musculoskeletal disorders. Another component of her research entails the development and evaluation of systems for surgical training and motor skills assessment.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/mechatronics-in-surgery-and-rehabilitation/
LOCATION:Room: ENG 288\, George Vari Centre\, 245 Church St.\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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